Eight people were killed when Taliban suicide bombers stormed the residence of an Afghan lawmaker in the capital Kabul, officials said after the attackers were gunned down early Thursday following a nearly 10-hour siege. Helmand MP Mir Wali survived the assault with injuries but two of his grandsons and bodyguards ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has evacuated some 30,000 people from eastern Aleppo in Syria since the start of the process, ICRC President Peter Maurer said. Maurer told RIA Novosti that evacuations would continue for several more days until the remaining residents wishing to leave the city ...